At War with Diversity: US Language Policy in an Age of Anxiety
Author: James Crawford
- Format:
- Paperback
- Related Formats:
- Ebook(PDF)
- ISBN:
- 9781853595059
- Published:
- 15th Sep 2000
- Publisher:
- Multilingual Matters
- Number of pages:
- 152
- Dimensions:
- 219mm x 150mm
- Availability:
- Available
James Crawford is president of the Institute for Language and Education Policy (www.elladvocates.org), a nonprofit research and advocacy organization. His recent books include English Learners in American Classrooms: 101 Questions, 101 Answers (coauthored with Stephen Krashen); At War with Diversity: US Language Policy in an Age of Anxiety; and Educating English Learners: Language Diversity in the Classroom (5th ed). Previously, he served as Washington editor of Education Week and executive director of the National Association for Bilingual Education.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Anatomy of the English-only Movement
Boom to Bust: Official English in the 1990s
Endangered Native American Languages: What Is To Be Done, and Why?
Seven Hypotheses on Language Loss
The Political Paradox of Bilingual Education
The Proposition 227 Campaign: A Post Mortem
References
Index